azure-defender-for-cloud

azure-defender-for-cloud is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills. It costs 125 tokens per session (9,790 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC-BY-4.0.

Specialist guidance for Azure Defender for Cloud, a security service for protecting cloud and multicloud resources.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports securing virtual machines, containers and Kubernetes, SQL databases, storage, and multicloud deployments.
Why use it?
It helps apply security controls and troubleshoot protection across different resource types and cloud environments.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the azure-agent-skills plugin — 148 skills shipped together , and of azure-agent-skills

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-defender-for-cloud
Any agent
npx skills add MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills --skill azure-defender-for-cloud
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install azure-agent-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 148 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-defender-for-cloud"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoftdocs/agent-skills/azure-defender-for-cloud.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 125 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 9,790 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00125 $0.09790
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.04895
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.01958
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00979

Measured yesterday against content hash 48082624c440, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

azure-defender-for-cloud scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/azure-defender-for-cloud/SKILL.md · 339 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed CC-BY-4.0

The repository is licensed CC-BY-4.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 339 lines · 125 tokens per session scan A 48082624c440

Subscribe to this mod's changes

azure-defender-for-cloud is a skill published in the GitHub repository MicrosoftDocs/Agent-Skills (733 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed CC-BY-4.0. It adds 125 tokens to every session and 9,790 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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